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Axplorer: Democratizing the search for interesting mathematical constructions
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> FWIW, you're misreading that chart. It shows a wild increase in memory prices When I say it's flat, I obviously mean the last couple of months. You'd have to be blind not to see last year's runup. You'd also ha
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> RAM prices spiked speculatively, and they're going down for the same reason. https://pcpartpicker.com/trends/price/memory/ Note how flat the black lines are. Then note how wide the gray bands are. T
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> Google announced Turboquant[1] today Most commentators seem to have missed that the TurboQuant paper was posted in April 2025: https://arxiv.org/abs/2504.19874 So it's been public knowledge for almost year, a
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As much as 23.1GW of capacity is under construction globally, split across 831 sites. The Americas region hosts 17GW of this capacity, across 311 locations. Europe, Middle East and Africa or EMEA as well as the Asia Pacific (APAC) region t
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> You can't ban Bitcoin https://www.aa.com.tr/en/economy/bitcoin-plunges-after-china...
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Eventually people will begin to put their memories of their lives on their sites. At first they will be like a grand photo-album, but then things will get more complicated. People will begin to journal their memories (cleaned up and detune
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China AI labs face growing open-source dilemma
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After, not before: FOX Business' Maria Bartiromo spoke with Trump shortly after the post, and Trump stressed, "Iran wants to make a deal badly." https://www.foxnews.com/politics/trump-orders-war-dept-po
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Now anyone can host a global AI challenge
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"OpenAI is focusing employee and investor attention on its enterprise business as the artificial intelligence startup gears up to go public, potentially by the end of the year, CNBC has learned." https://www.cnbc.com&#x
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"Sam Altman considers it a worthwhile expense": https://www.tomshardware.com/tech-industry/artificial-intell...
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The Space Data Center Mass Budget Behind 10× Power Density
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Halt the Hitchhiker: Invasive Species Challenge
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You have GUEST access to 28 vintage systems in the browser at connect.sdf.org
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Large Language Model Reasoning Failures
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> Your link to the list of past PPP GDPs does not say what unit is used - it says "international dollars" without specifying an year. Irrelevant since we are comparing relative sizes, like EU vs US, now and then. >> but b
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> Now compare that to the same numbers from 40 years ago. That turns out to be easier than I thought thanks to [1]. In 1986 it looked like this (PPP, million USD): China: 647,219 USA: 4,579,625 EU ex UK: 4,368,019 UK: 805,518 EU total: 5
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In purchasing power parity terms, a glance at Wikipedia yields China: $43.491 trillion [1] USA: $31.821 trillion [2] EU: $30.184 trillion [3] UK: $4.59 trillion [4] [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Economy_of_China [2
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A.k.a. "Keep the Russians out, the Americans in, and the Germans down" https://unherd.com/2017/10/keeping-russians-americans-german...
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> so the actual disagreement here seems to be whether adding same-mass right-handed neutrinos counts as a significant modification to the Standard Model I disagree. That has been the working definition of Standard Model for decades. All
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> the mass should come from the Higgs mechanism, Correct. That's the pattern we see in quarks, and also applying it to leptons works just fine. In practice, if you are a particle physicist doing calculations which happen to involve
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> giving neutrinos a bare mass term would violate electroweak gauge invariance? Giving any standard model fermion a bare mass term would violate electroweak gauge invariance. That was one of the problems with Glashow's electroweak
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Poor Lord Kelvin gets maligned a lot: https://arxiv.org/abs/2106.16033 That aside, a distinction should be made between 1) claiming that physics is pretty much done (what he's often accused of) and 2) pointing out
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> It's trivial to add a matrix to account for neutrino masses The matrix you are thinking of is presumably the PMNS matrix [1]. It's equivalent to the CKM matrix for quarks [2]. The purpose of both is to parametrize the mismatc
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Mrinank on X: "Today is my last day at Anthropic. I resigned."
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> neutrino mass, which is not part of the standard model of particle physics This is getting tiresome... https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46956197
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> the standard model neutrinos can't participate in the Higgs mechanism due to always being left-handed This again? It's only true if you insist on sticking with the original form of Weinberg's "model of leptons"
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Effective field theory is a general approach to integrate out degrees of freedom which are not relevant to the problem at hand. Trivial example: if you are trying to build an aqueduct (characteristic scale: meters and up), you can safely ig
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The first working transistors and engines were of the size which happened to be most convenient to work with. They could then be shrunk because fundamental physical limits to their size were far below human scale. Their inventors were neith
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